Georgi Purvanov(Bulgarian Statesman)

Date of Birth:

28 June 1957

Nationality:

Bulgarian

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Georgi Sedefchov Parvanov has been president of Bulgaria since 22 January 2002. Parvanov became president after defeating his predecessor, Petar Stoyanov, in the second round of the November 2001 presidential election. He retained his position following the elections in 2006.

On July 19, 2007 the Commission on Communistic State Security Files announced that documents prove that Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria, was a secret agent of the communistic State Security Services under the name "agent Gotse". Two documents reveal that the secret agent Gotse agreed to serve "with desire and promptness". These documents are proudly published on the Bulgarian President website by the President himself. There is no law in Bulgaria banning former secret agents from occupying high state positions as it is in Germany, Czech republic, Slovakia and Poland. Bulgaria is the only EC country whose head of state is a former communistic agent. During his years of office, Georgi Parvanov appointed a lot of advisers and ambassadors who were announced on 19 July 2007 to be proven secret agents of the communistic pro-Soviet state security services. These are